August 2008
11 posts
Everything
The clap
On the 47 headed to work. An R’nB song is playing on someones headphones. The only part coming thru is the whiney muffled voice of a male singer and the familiar slow boom/clap rhythm. Boom- , boom-clap, boom boom.
This boom/clap rhythm takes me back to middle school, a time when I listened to boyz 2 men.
This wasn’t the same though. After a while the pattern changed to include more...
Perceived Threat
I watched two documentaries today. One was called War Made Easy and was all about the reoccuring narrative of American wars. Pretty interesting but also very anti-war biased; Not much coverage of why war may be nessesary. The other one was Where in the World is Osama bin Laden. It was very interesting and brought up the point that for the most part everyone in the middle of the war on terror...
Economy Time!!
Yep
"there is an anti-bling thing going on"
“The process of bringing our wants and our needs into realignment,” says Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg, “is going to involve years of savings and frugality.” Or, to put more it more simply, “there is an anti-bling thing going on,” says Marian Salzman, chief marketing officer of Porter Novelli.
Party’s Over is the general theme of this article...
Sharing
Yelp is really cool. I found my first SF sushi restaurant, Sushi Zone, on Yelp.
Last night I went to another restaurant which I had been to before. The place had essentially found it’s mojo for me. It went from average to my new favorite.
The food was great, the environment and clientel were fitting, and the service was friendly like they were strangers having a party and wanted me to join...
Change Congress
Please watch this video of copyright lawyer Lawrence Lessig presenting his new project: Change Congress.
His premise is that until we remove the money from the job of Congress-person we’ll never be able to trust Congress to work for us. It’s worth a listen and it really resonates at a time like this, when only 9% of Americans believe that Congress is doing a satisfactory job.
Nikes on, plane down
Found this on Alaska Airlines. You probably can’t make it out but the people tucking in this illustration have small Nike swooshes on their shoes.
Airports
I thought I was on to something. Sitting in a stall in the bathroom was a great idea for passing the time at the airport. It seems I was not alone.
Bloggin dis
Well this was after I put rice on it. Basil in SOMA, service sucks but the ribs were good.
Roof Access
My landlord is unlocking the cage on my kitchen window. My apartment is on the second floor of our building and outside of my kitchen window is a small piece of roof. My other two beautiful bay windows face across an alley at the adjancent building about seven feet away.
Our apartment doesn’t get tons of natural light but it gets some. More than some basement apartments. At least we have...